Péage

General

Péage is the print/scan/copy system of Radboud University for staff and students. As of March 2019, the old Konica Minolta MFPs and the corresponding software are replaced. The Library of Science has passes for guests. General information can be found on the Péage website.

In the Linux Document Viewer you need to print twice to get one output.

Please remove printers that are no longer part of the print system from your computer.

cups-2.2.7 and smbclient-4.8.1 conflict in their command-line API which breaks printing on Linux (seen on Arch Linux). A solution is to patch /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb (or to update smbclient).

Printing with Péage

Login with campuscard/ru-card

Before you can use your campuscard/ru-card to login onto the printer you first have to link the
card to your u-account:

Keep your to the front side of the printer at the place where the card sticker is.

When the printer recognizes the card it will popup a new window with which you can login.

Login (only once) with your U, E, S of F number and RU-password

The next time you place your campuscard/ru-card before the printer you are immediately logged in.

User groups

Péage has 1 printserver and 1 printqueue for FollowMe printing:

printserver

printqueue

UNC - Windows style

URI - IPP style

print.hosting.ru.nl

FollowMe

\\print.hosting.ru.nl\FollowMe

smb://print.hosting.ru.nl/FollowMe

For smaller printers without display/keyboard, the direct printqueue of the printer must be used:

printserver

printqueue

UNC - Windows style

URI - IPP style

print.hosting.ru.nl

KM-xxxx

\\print.hosting.ru.nl\KM-xxxx

smb://print.hosting.ru.nl/KM-xxxx

Peage portal: Printing with Péage on any Internet device

With the Peage portal you can print from smartphone, tablet and every Internet-device connected to the university network to Peage, through e.g. web upload. A web upload always prints double-sided in black&white.

Printing with Péage on a C&CZ managed Windows machine

The printer "FollowMeScience" is listed at the server "print.science.ru.nl". To let this work, your U- or s-number must be registered at C&CZ. You can check this on the Do-It-Yourself site.

Printing with Péage on a self managed Windows 7/8/8.1/10 machine

The instructions below are valid if you logged in with your Science account or a personal account. If you logged in with RU\U-number or RU\s-number, go directly to step 4. N.B.: your settings are not saved then.
To attach the printer, you need your RU-account (u/f/e/s-number and RU-password, not the Peage PIN code).

Step 1

Select Start, in the Help / Search area enter Credential Manager and launch the application found.

Step 2

The Windows Vault appears. Click on Add a Windows credential next to the header Windows Credentials.

Printing with Péage on a Mac OS X machine

Manual installation

You need your RU-account (u/f/e/s-number and RU-password, not your Peage PIN code) to send a print job to the printer.

Step 1

Select System Preferences, select Printers & Scanners

Step 2

Click on the + (plus) sign below the list of printers.

See if you have an item Advanced in the menu bar.

Whenever this item is not present: Right click in this menu bar and choose Customize Toolbar....

Drag the item Advanced into the menu bar.

Click on Done and, again, click on the item Advanced in the menu bar.

Step 3

Enter printer data:

Type: Windows printer via spoolss

Device: Another Device

URL: smb://print.hosting.ru.nl/FollowMe

Name: Free to type text field, eg. Peage (this will be the name of the printer in the printer list)

Location: Free to type text field, eg. Péage Konica Minolta printers

Use: Change Choose a Driver... to the printer driver, eg. Generic Postscript Printer. Remark: if you want to staple your prints, then you need for printing on MacOS to install a specific driver for your specific printer. Unfortunately Konica Minolta doesn't provide a generic driver for all its printers for MacOS as it does for Windows. If you need stapling only in special occasions then you could ask a colleague with a Windows computer to print it for you stapled. A specific driver for your specific printer can be downloaded from the Konica Minolta website. You also have to configure the specific hardware addons to your specific printer. You can do this in the "printer&scanner" preferences, then select your specific printer left, and then on the right side click the "options supply" button, and go to the Options tab. In this tab set the specific "paper source unit", "finisher" and "punch unit". Ask a colleague with a Windows computer to look in its printer configuration to find out which specific "paper source unit", "finisher" and "punch unit" your printer has.

Finally click Add.

A new window will appear with an option Duplex Printing Unit. Mark the checkbox as active and click OK.

Step 4

Now is the time to setup your printing preferences. Click Options & Supplies... and next Options.

Printing with Péage on a C&CZ managed Linux machine

The printer "FollowMe" is listed. Command line printing with lpr -PFollowMe is possible. To let this work, your U- or s-number must be registered at C&CZ. You can check this on the Do-It-Yourself site.

Printing with Péage on a self managed Linux machine

You need your RU-account (u/f/e/s-number and RU-password, not your Peage PIN code) to send a print job to the printer.

Below a short description how to install the printer on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver).
This procedure might work for other recent Linux systems using the Gnome Desktop.
It may be necessary to first install the smbclient package using your package manager.

Step 1

If you are using a C&CZ managed Linux computer, the printer is already installed. Go to step 6.

Via System Settings visit Printers. Or start the tool system-config-printer tool from the commandline with the command: system-config-printer

Step 2

Click below the Printer list on Additional Printer Settings... and next within the pop-up app Printers - localhost on the Add button.

It is adviced to first use firefox to make a test print to initialize and store your credentials safely in the gnome keyring. Use firefox because not all linux programs ask for authentication correctly, but will print alright once the credentials are stored correcty in the keyring.

As soon as you use the printer, a window will pop up showing the message Authentication is required to print ... and also asking for your credentials. It can happen that your print job gets paused requesting authentication. In that case open the print queue and right click on your print job. In the upcoming context menu select the authenticate option. It might be a good idea to keep the print queue applet open and to check for print jobs requesting authentication.

CUPS will store the information from step 3 into /etc/cups/printers.conf

There should be details of the printer, and also these lines:

AuthInfoRequired username,password

DeviceURI smb://_USER:/FollowMe

The actual _USER and _PASSWORD can be set, and the AuthInfoRequired can be set:

AuthInfoRequired none

After restarting cups ("service cups restart") printing should work. To make this the default add "export PRINTER=FollowMe" to ~/.bashrc and print with lpr, or using, e.g., okular or evince. The default setting is to print in grayscale. If you want to print in color, change the settings. With lpr, use -o SelectColor=Color. To set this option permanently use: "/usr/bin/lpoptions -o SelectColor=Color". This will store the setting in /etc/cups/lpoptions.

Step 5

After a reboot, AuthInfoRequired in /etc/cups/printers.conf may be reset to "username,password". Also, you may not like a password in plain ASCII. This can be fixed by changing the backend: the "smb" in printer.conf refers to /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb, which usually is a link to /usr/bin/smbspool. Change /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb into a bash script:

#!/bin/bash

export AuthInfoRequired none

export DEVICE_URI="smb://_USER:/FollowMe"

/usr/bin/smbspool "$@"

You can now use the actual RU-username and password, or create a script that has a more secure way of obtaining the password

Printing a job at the MFP

Step 1

Log in with your RU-account, without the ru\ prefix, eg. u123456 and RU-password or your 6 digit Péage PIN on one of the Konica Minolta MFP's. All MFPs have a card reader, you can also just swipe the coupled card (campus card or other). There is a manual how to couple a card.

Step 2

Choose Print, select the print job(s).

Pressing Details next to the print job will show you the costs of this print job.